On 2007-09-03 03:08:42 -0700, Terrorist Killer > said:

>> It's logical that those animals we have most closely associated with
>> personally would be difficult to eat. I figured that was one of the
>> reasons for 4H--to torque children's brains where they could find a way
>> to understand loving an animal, and then killing it for dinner. I
>> assume this is not a normal relationship to domesticated animals and
>> foodstuffs and has to be learned, and learned before one's brain sets
>> up all the logical civilized associations.
>
> I was raised on a farm, for part of my childhood. Having watched the
> butchering and cleaning of animals from an early age, I seem to be
> immune to any ill feelings regarding the process.

Thanks for bolstering my point.

> When an animal is walking around mooing, I see them as a live animal
> and treat them as well as possible. I certainly have never gone out of
> my way to make their simple lives harder for them.

That's called a conscience and city boy/farm boy, christian/muslim, not
everybody has one.

> When I dispatch an animal, it's with a means that is suitable for a
> speedy death. Most of the larger animals, I shoot. The smaller are
> decapitated and then hung to drain.
>
> Living on a farm will toughen up almost everyone in regards to
> slaughtering for food.

Please do not misinterpret and I mean absolutely no disrespect to you
or the culture from which you come: This is the way children are
toughened up to the way of contemporary primitive warfare in Cambodia
and Rwanda in order to whittle relatives and school friends into
kindling with a machete. More benign: this is also the way people
acquire tastes for menudo, natto and blodpudding. Some things you need
learn or acquiese to by the time your 7 or 8 if you're going to get
with the game.
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